WASHINGTON — It’s a stunning comparison that, in some ways, explains everything about the crisis in Ukraine. Back in 1990, average per-person incomes in Poland and Ukrai...
It has been said that nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Nearly two decades ago, while I was serving as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Alaska’s Sens. Frank Murkowski ...
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, one of his selling points was the promise of a more modest foreign policy than that of his predecessor. And when Obama won ...
Less than a decade after it started requiring students to write an essay as part of the SAT, the College Board announced last week that it is eliminating that portion of...
WASHINGTON — The crisis in Ukraine reminds us that the future is unpredictable, that wars routinely involve miscalculation and that brute force — boots on the ground, bo...
I thought I was thoroughly familiar with junk mail until we began the college-application process. Now each day I come home to four or five brochures addressed to my hig...
WASHINGTON — When the going gets tough, well, why not just make the going easier?
This seems to be the conclusion of the College Board, which administers the dreaded SAT...
The Oscars did the right thing by bestowing the honor of best picture to “12 Years a Slave.” The movie earned it.
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup’s debasement...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told President Obama on Sunday that Vladimir Putin was out of touch with reality. When it comes to Ukraine, however, it’s not ...
Nutrition labels on the food and beverages we consume should tell us the truth. So the Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to make the first significant changes in t...
